Quotes from Jacques Plante

You had no mask, and the coach kept telling you, 'Use your head.' And I did.

How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

Our four defensemen all had flaws: one couldn't skate backwards, one couldn't turn to his left, one couldn't turn to his right, and the fourth couldn't pass the puck accurately to our blue line. Somebody had to clear the loose pucks, so I started doing it myself.

Whenever I won an award in the NHL, I thought of my father and the pride he would get in reading about it and having people mention it to him.